Reader Letter | Hearing, newspaper stack deck against Shanklin

8:17 PM,
Nov. 15, 2012

Aubrey Williams

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AUBREY WILLIAMS

Your editorial on Nov.10, and the accompanying story, "Subpoena power urged for City's Ethics Panel," was misleading and fallacious. They omit the context of my rhetorical question: " ... Can you imagine a lawyer being able to tell a witness to leave the witness stand?" Had the hearing been guided by the rules that govern trial courts, the prosecutor would not have been allowed to make a mockery of my client's right not to testify.